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Algis Shuraitis, Bayerisches Staatsorchester - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (2011)

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Algis Shuraitis, Bayerisches Staatsorchester - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (2011)

Algis Shuraitis, Bayerisches Staatsorchester - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 763 Mb | Total time: 72:29+62:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Orfeo | # C 811 112| Recorded: 1984

In contrast to Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky s other operas have led something of a shadowy existence in the repertoire. Only his penultimate music drama The Queen of Spades (also after Alexander Pushkin) can claim to look back on a continuous performing tradition in recent decades. In 1984 the Bavarian State Opera gave a production that was musically exemplary in many ways, starting with the role of Lisa, sung by Julia Varady.

Julia Varady - Varady: The Essentials (2021)

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Julia Varady - Varady: The Essentials (2021)

Julia Varady - Varady: The Essentials (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 632 MB
4:28:38 | Classical | Label: UMG Recordings

Julia Varady is a highly respected soprano who has had a major European career and considerable success elsewhere. She comes from a fabled part of Rumania that used to belong to Hungary and is home to most of Rumania's ethnic Hungarian population. She studied at the Conservatory in Cluj (formerly Klausenberg), then at the conservatory in the capital city of Bucharest. She returned to Cluj and in 1960 gained a contract with the Cluj Opera and quickly was given the leading roles in the lyric-dramatic repertory, including Judith in Bluebeard's Castle, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Butterfly in Madama Butterfly (after originally playing the short part of Kate Pinkerton), the Marriage of Figaro (in which she sang, at various times, all three soprano roles), Turandot (as Liù), Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, and Desdemona in Verdi's Otello. During this period she also made guest appearances at the National Opera of Bucharest and in Budapest, Hungary.

Karl Böhm, Staatskapelle Dresden - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo, re di Creta (1990)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Karl Böhm, Staatskapelle Dresden - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo, re di Creta (1990)

Karl Böhm, Staatskapelle Dresden - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo, re di Creta (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 736 Mb | Total time: 53:45+48:26+67:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 429 864-2 | Recorded: 1977

…[Böhm] may be an octogenarian, but he directs the opera for the most part with a spirit and an urgency that many a young man might envy. Most of the accompanied recitatives are alert and fiery, and in this particular work they carry a great deal of the emotional weight. Here and there I find myself at odds with a choice of tempo. Especially in the closing scenes, some of the orchestral recitative seems to need to go more slowly; it is inclined to lack the proper sense of momentousness. I was a little surprised too at the quickish tempo for the opening aria and, most of all, for the great quartet in Act III, which has more turbulence and urgency than usual, particularly with its sharply contoured dynamics and its incisive accents.

John Eliot Gardiner, The English Baroque Soloists - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (1991)

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John Eliot Gardiner, The English Baroque Soloists - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (1991)

John Eliot Gardiner, The English Baroque Soloists - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 471 Mb | Total time: 58:20+59:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 431 806-2 | Recorded: 1990

Listening to this work so soon after hearing Zauberflote one is amazed anew that Mozart could write two such totally contrasted pieces within months of each other. Here, in the composer's last opera seria, we are in another world, one of formality tempered by the deep emotions engendered by love and jealousy. Instead of birdcatchers and Masonic rights we are dealing with historic figures in a supposedly historic context with down-to-earth feelings. For each Mozart finds precisely the appropriate music.

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Bach: Coffee & Peasant Cantatas (1990)

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Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Bach: Coffee & Peasant Cantatas (1990)

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Bach: Coffee Cantata & Peasant Cantata / Kaffee-Kantate & Bauern-Kantate (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 273 Mb | Total time: 57:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | 412 882-2 | Recorded: 1981

In the early 1950s Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau began what would become a long and distinguished career as one of his generation’s foremost Bach interpreters. By 1981, when he and his wife Julia Varady made this recording for Philips, his declining vocal abilities apparently didn’t prevent him from continuing to deliver the kind of infectious, exuberant performances that established that reputation and endeared him to so many listeners.

Julia Varady, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schumann: Duette (1999)

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Julia Varady, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schumann: Duette (1999)

Julia Varady, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schumann: Duette (1999)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 60:38 | 258 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 457 915-2

…interesting, neglected material performed to perfection with texts and translations provided. Although Schumann’s duets were primarily intended for home performance around the piano, they benefit enormously from readings by such fine artists as the three taking part in this recital – recorded in 1977, but sounding as if committed to disc yesterday, so excellent is the sound, so spontaneous the singing.